Golliwogs! There... I've said it!

What’s going on with all this golliwog thing? How can we find that a golliwog is offensive while a cleric ranting outside a mosque or a demonstration calling for all us Westerners to be killed is quite OK? Political correctness seems to be following the

Grumpy's back!

The recent snow has irritated me for a number of reasons. First because we didn’t get much. Somehow I felt cheated as the rest of the UK basked in bucket loads of white stuff, children had time off school, and, just for a brief moment, we forgot all our

Look, I was in the Gym at 6:50am, right!

Today, for the first time in about two years, I went to the gym fashionably early. I was there at 6:50am! Yes, dear reader – ten to seven. The reason for my early arrival didn’t put me in the best of humour. My daughter is now a fully fledged student.

Credit Crunch! Good thing or bad thing?

There seems to be nothing like a good financial crisis to get the lunatics that run this asylum we call a country running around like headless chickens completely undecided whether any particular circumstance is a) A Good Thing, or b) A Bad Thing. Sounds

Charity Holidays.

Twice in the past week I’ve been asked to pay for someone to go on holiday. Now I know we all pay our taxes and therefore we are paying for ASBO Kids to have a break at Centre Parcs but at least we don’t see that happening do we. What I’m getting peed

Barclayman finally gets whats coming to him - our money!

Has the world gone completely MAD? All this Credit Crunch Stuff. Even my 12 year old said last week, “You know – I’ve had enough of this Credit Crunch Stuff – they should stop it now”. Out of the mouths of babes and 12-year olds….. So today, if I want

Now it's The Parrot Olympics!

The Parrot Olympics? What’s this all about then? I switch on the TV and those stupid, smug little Chinese cartoon characters are on again advertising the Parrot Olympics. Is this just the clever, inscrutable Chinese wringing every last penny out of the

Final Grumpy word on the end of the Olympics.

So while I’m having my rant about the Olympics let me make another very important point and it concerns this ridiculous BBC idea of calling all the British competitors “athletes” and constantly referring to them as “Team GB”. I mean what the f**k is that

Get ready for the Grumpympics - The REAL greatest show on earth.

Good to see the inscrutable Chinese living up to their “leputation”. Confucius he say -  If it doesn’t look like you want everyone to see it – change it. Computer generated opening ceremony – sheer genius. We have four years to get the pimply youth

The Grumplings do The Red Bull Air Race

The Grumpy Family went off to darkest London yesterday – to see The Red Bull Air Race. It was held over the River Thames on the bend round, what for me will always be, The Millennium Dome.   Really Spectacular! Family expeditions are increasing

Campaign to Ban Smokers Bus Shelters.

This blog is to be the official launch of my one man campaign to get rid of these ridiculous “Smokers Bus Shelters” that are popping up in front of our pubs and restaurants. Who do these people think they are that their outdated and dirty habit should

Weddings? Don't you just love them?

Weddings…..don’t you just love them, or hate them…..well actually I just HATE them. Weddings are the absolute epitome of Hell for Grumpy. I find myself with a whole list of Why? When? And Where? questions at every wedding I ever attend. The last wedding

Essex Comes to Norfolk - Part 2

While I was flattered and delighted to see how many people enjoyed my piece on "The Julies" last week, I do have some disturbing news to report on that front. Some of you may recall that "The Julies" were the “better ‘arfs” of a couple of Braintree

Essex comes to Norfolk

Has anyone else noticed that a disproportionate number of men involved in armed robbery these days come from Braintree, wear white vests to show off their orange tans, have greasy gelled hair and drive big Range Rovers. This description could, of course,

Norwich Aviva

Call me a cynical old Grumpy if you wish. Just how dim to Norwich Union – sorry Aviva, think the citizens of Norwich really are? On the day when they announce that they are to be the shirt sponsors for Norwich City for next year they also announce they